Time & Location: All talks will be in Gibson Hall 126A on Thursdays at 3:30 pm unless otherwise noted. In order to have time to talk informally with the speakers, we will schedule a time we call “Tea with the speaker” that everyone is welcome to join.
Organizer: Tommaso Buvoli and SamuelPunshon-Smith
Thursday, September 7
Colloquium
Topic: TBA
Speaker - INSTITUTION (Host: )
Abstract: TBA
Location: Gibson Hall 126A
Time: 3:30 pm
Thursday, September 14
Colloquium
Topic: Scalable stochastic compartmental models for infectious disease
Marc Suchard - UCLA (Host: Ji )
Abstract: Researchers struggle with likelihood-based inference from count data that arise continuously in time but we only intermittently observe them. A major shortcoming lies in our inability to integrate most underlying stochastic processes generating the data over all possible realizations between observations. Since these processes are ubiquitous across the natural, physical and social sciences as generative models, solutions should promote the use of statistical inference in many real-world problems. One seemingly trivial example is a stochastic compartmental model tracking the count of susceptible, infectious and removed people during the spread of an infectious disease. For over 90 years, many have believed the transition probabilities of this SIR model remain beyond reach. However, applying a novel re-parameterization, integral transforms and other tools from numerical analysis shows that we can compute the transition probabilities in merely quadratic complexity in terms of the observed change in population size. Other stochastic processes for modest numbers of outcomes, such as those employed to model molecular sequence evolution, yield well to advancing computing technology, such as many-core parallelization. Examples in this talk stem from the dynamics of influenza across the global and the 2014-2015 West African ebola outbreak.
Location: Gibson Hall 126A
Time: 3:30 pm
Thursday, September 21
Colloquium
Topic: TBA
Speaker - INSTITUTION (Host: )
Abstract: TBA
Location: Gibson Hall 126A
Time: 3:30 pm
Thursday, September 28
Colloquium
Topic: TBA
Speaker - INSTITUTION (Host: )
Abstract: TBA
Location: Gibson Hall 126A
Time: 3:30 pm
Thursday, October 5
Fall Break
Thursday, October 12
Colloquium
Topic: TBA
Speaker - INSTITUTION (Host: )
Abstract: TBA
Location: Gibson Hall 126A
Time: 3:30 pm
Thursday, October 19
Colloquium
Topic: TBA
A.V. Jayanthan - Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Host: Tai Ha )
Abstract: TBA
Location: Gibson Hall 126A
Time: 3:30 pm
Thursday, October 26
Colloquium
Topic: TBA
Speaker - INSTITUTION (Host: )
Abstract: TBA
Location: Gibson Hall 126A
Time: 3:30 pm
Thursday, November 2
Colloquium
Topic: TBA
Jorge Macías-Díaz - Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (Host: Can, Didier)
Abstract: Gibson Hall 126A
Location: Gibson Hall 126A
Time: 3:30 pm
Thursday, November 9
Colloquium
Topic: TBA
Speaker - Mette Olufsen | NCSU (Host: Cortez, Fauci )
Abstract: TBA
Location: Gibson Hall 126A
Time: 3:30 pm
Thursday, November 16
Colloquium
Topic: TBA
Sookkyung Lim - University of Cincinnati (Host: Cortez, Fauci )
Abstract: TBA
Location: Gibson Hall 126A
Time: 3:30 pm
Thursday, November 20
Thanksgiving Break
Thursday, November 30
Colloquium
Topic: TBA
Nikolai Saveliev - University of Miami (Host: Komendarczyk)
Abstract: TBA
Location: Gibson Hall 126A
Time: 3:30 pm
Friday, December 8
Last day of Classes
